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... too quickly. In any case, the corporatists among the members of the Federation of British Industry (FBI) were a minority strand in the thinking of the Tory Party and British industrial capital; and even among the corporatists there were divisions.(9 ) Frank Longstreth called this network of BCU, Industrial Group, FBI and other employer propaganda groups of the period, such as the Economic League, the Preference Imperialists, and noted their links to the earlier Midlands manufacturing-based Tariff Reform League.(10) As Longstreth suggested, it is possible to view the British economy since 1900 as a protracted struggle between British manufacturing (domestic capital) and the City of London ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-01.htm
... chapter would provoke laughter, derision or anger from many. For some, since 1956 the CPGB has been a declining, bureaucratic relic, hardly a 'threat' to anybody.(149) For others merely asking the question gives credibility to disinformation from the right. But the fact remains that significant sections of the British Right, in the propaganda organisations of capital, the state and the Conservative Party, believed that the CPGB was part of a global conspiracy, directed and financed by Moscow, which was working in the union movement and wider society to undermine capitalist democracy in Britain. And it is no longer self-evident that this was complete nonsense. Orders from Moscow? ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-09.htm
... is hard to describe. From the cover blurb: the author demonstrates how the government-funded psychological warfare programs of the Cold War years under-wrote the academic studies that formed the basis for much of modern communication research. ' I would say: after the war the spooks and the military paid the academics to develop the techniques of propaganda with which to influence the perceptions of the American tax-payer and the subject populations of the informal American empire. (Alternatively, this shows how loyal American academics helped the military and the intelligence services win the war with communism.) My problem with it is that I know nothing at all about 'modern communication theory' or its ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-20.htm
... © 2001 Lobster The Clandestine Caucus Anti socialist campaigns and operations in the British Labour Movement since the war Clandestine Caucus as a single document PDF (751K) By Robin Ramsay Contents | Cover Image Part 1: Clearing the ground: the unions, socialism and the state U.S . influence after the war Post-war: private sector propaganda begins to regroup Common Cause and IRIS Part 2 Atlantic Crossings Anti-communism as a profession: The Information Research Department The subversion hunters and the social democrats in the 1970s The Crozier operations Was there a 'communist threat'? Books and articles cited Introduction Some of this material has appeared before. Part of the section on Common Cause and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/index.htm
... program was the freebie visits to the United States organised by the then USIA.(3 ) From the list of NZ personnel who went on these USIA junkets between 1981 and 1986, 14, mostly politicians, appear in the not very extensive index to Kelsey's book, but Kelsey doesn't mention this programme. How important this and the other propaganda operations carried out by CIA and State Department fronts are, I don't know. But it all helps. In a way it would be reassuring to know that the US had machinated all this, but the impression Kelsey gives - which is why the book is so depressing - is that this catastrophy was inflicted on New Zealand by zealots ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-11.htm
... on 1 February 1963 that the Security Service should not be further involved: 'Until further notice no approach should be made to anyone in the Ward galère, or to any other outside contacts in respect of it. If we are approached, we listen only. ' Elsewhere, without offering any evidence, West claims that the brilliant WWII black propaganda expert, Sefton Delmer, was a Soviet agent. In the mid-1950s Delmer was expelled from Egypt for being an SIS agent. President Abdel-Nasser, who played footsie with both the Americans and the Soviets, would have hardly have booted out a Soviet agent and risked jeopardizing Egyptian-Soviet relations. He also asserts that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-17.htm
... an end to the notion that redemocratizing European countries could be accomplished simply by regenerating their economies'. Ibid. p. 67. I put it as 'think' because the reality was never that neat and tidy Cited in Carew p. 84 Pisani p. 91 Ibid. p. 96. ECA 'does engage in some gray and black propaganda' but 'the programmes represent a very small percentage of the total effort and are coordinated with the CIA' Ibid . p. 12 Carew p. 153 Ranelagh p. 135 'From its creation in 1948 until 1952 when the Marshall Plan was terminated, the OPC operated as the plan's complement. ' Pisani p. 70. Ibid. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-02.htm
... of Staff committee which 'considered, with Sir Stewart Menzies, the head of MI6, and Warner [of IRD] and William Hayter of the Foreign Office, what form of organisation was required to establish a satisfactory link between the Chiefs of Staff and Foreign Office on matters connected with the day-to-day conduct of anti-Communist propaganda overseas. '( 101) In the Autumn of 1955 the Common Cause Bulletin reported that there had been moves at the Labour Party conference that year to get it proscribed - but the motion to that effect 'was among the many crowded out from discussion'.(102) The Labour Party's intelligence-gathering Common Cause was one of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-04.htm
... the academic world: 'Among the 'deep' or repressed sociological features of our universities and cultural life are the following facts published by the Church Committee in 1976: The Central Intelligence Agency is now using several hundred academics, who, in addition to providing leads and occasionally making introductions for intelligence purposes, occasionally write books and other materials used for propaganda purposes abroad...these academics are located in over 100 American universities. Prior to 1967, the Central Intelligence Agency sponsored, subsidized, or produced 1,000 books... For example, a book written for an English speaking audience by one CIA operative was reviewed favourably by another CIA agent in the New York Times ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-04.htm
... locals and gather intelligence. A number of the Americans could speak Thai as well. We would not be identifiably British or American, and we would wear nondescript military clothing, without insignia..... and neither would we wear dog tags for identification. If we were killed, then the enemy would have a hard time making propaganda capital from our corpses. Our major task was reconnaissance, but we were conscious that our prime purpose was to set the pattern for more troops, both American and British to be committed later on..... I was in Thailand for eleven months altogether, but politically so far as Britain was concerned, it is certain ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-02.htm
